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WiTH Awards Nominees Announced for May 25 Ceremony at HITS: Spring

LOS ANGELES — Women in Technology: Hollywood (WiTH), an organization that serves as a catalyst for the advancement of women in entertainment technology, has announced the nominee... More

Microsoft Azure: Keeping IoT Infrastructures Secure Presents Challenges

Connecting assets with other people and companies via multiple devices is becoming an increasingly common fact of life for individuals and organizations, but keeping Internet of Th... More

NAB 2017: 5th Kind to Unveil All-New DAM System

Marvel, Warner Bros., Disney, Illumination ... Hollywood’s top content companies have long relied on 5th Kind and its digital asset management (DAM) solutions, using the company�... More

M&E Journal: How To Stop Your Data From Driving You In The Wrong Direction

Ramon Chen, Reltio - We live in a world surrounded by data. Whether we’re conscious of it, we make decisions in our every day lives based on discreet pieces of information. Fr... More

M&E Journal: Network DVR: The Better Alternative To Cord-Cutting And OTT

By Eric Hybertson, Evolution Digital - Network DVR (nDVR) is the latest evolution in recording TV shows for time-shifted viewing. Recordable VHS tapes and VCRs gave way to stan... More

Media Execs: OTT, TV Everywhere Creating New Ad Opportunities, Challenges

NEW YORK — The growth of over-the-top (OTT) and TV Everywhere services are creating an increasing number of new opportunities, as well as challenges, for media companies and adve... More

M&E Journal: Addressing Avails Challenges and Solutions in the World of Digital Delivery

Michael Kadenacy, My Eye Media - The concept behind content avails has always been simple: give digital retailers precise data regarding when a video is available to run, where... More

Adobe Unveils ‘Experience Cloud,’ Announces Joint Microsoft Solutions

Adobe kicked off its Summit 2017 event March 21 with a slew of announcements, including the launch of a new cloud-based services offering and a series of joint enterprise solutions... More

M&E Journal: Compliance in Cinema

By Joel Sloss, Microsoft - If an authentic Picasso was stolen off your wall, would you care? If you had hand-restored a classic car from the frame up and a tree fell on it, wou... More

Adobe Marks 25 Years of Premiere

Adobe is celebrating a quarter century of its editing software Premiere this year, and to mark the occasion, the company is launching “Make the Cut,” a global editing competiti... More

Crawford Media Services Ups Storage Game

Atlanta-based Crawford Media Services has upped its storage game of late, adding the capacity to hold an initial 1.2 petabytes of archived assets from clients who are moving their ... More

MarkLogic on Smart Production, AWS Tackles AI at Smart Content Summit West

At the March 9 Smart Content Summit West event in Los Angeles, executives from MarkLogic will look at the benefits of using a data hub for film and TV production; an expert with Am... More

Viacom Execs: ‘Data Democratization’ is Important for Better Decision-Making

NEW YORK — The “democratization” of data is important today for better decision-making in the entertainment industry, according to Viacom data strategy executives. To help... More

Aspera Files Gets Upgraded, Adds Customers

Several components of Aspera Files Software as a Service (SaaS) offering have been upgraded, and the IBM-owned company has announced a handful of new customers for the cloud-based ... More

M&E Journal: A Cloud-Based Digital Supply Chain: Not Just About Capacity

Andy Shenkler, Sony DADC New Media Solutions - The list of options in today’s world is seemingly endless with tools such as social sharing, instantaneous commenting, photo fi... More

Verizon Digital Media Services Launches ‘The Smarts’ Video Promotion

One-to-one session management has long been an integral part of Verizon Digital Media Services’ (VDMS) end-to-end digital platform offering. And Smartplay, the company’s latest... More

Munson: Availability of Aspera High-Speed Transfer Service Expands

Availability of the Aspera High-Speed Transfer Service (ATS) that the IBM division introduced last year has been expanding since launching on Amazon Web Services in late November, ... More

Crawford Media: Adapting to the Digital Age

In an industry where content is king, managing the fluid/variable content types is critical. With a constant awareness on evolving technologies, longtime industry staple Crawford M... More

M&E Journal: You Play It, You Pay For It

By Tony Rodriguez, Digimarc - Copyright: The primary form of protection that empowers and safeguards artistic creativity. Creators of “original works of authorship” are pro... More

M&E Journal: Ultra HD Blu-ray Brings Forth Ultra-Workflow Challenges

Bhanu Srikanth, Giant Interactive - Ultra HD Blu-ray is technically an extension of Blu-ray from a standardization perspective, but it has necessitated extraordinary changes in ... More

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